Army Ranger, Lieutenant Aiden Marshall, fought in some
of the most hellish corners on earth and survived. Those closest to him, did
not. When he returns home to Sweet, Texas, he believes he’s broken and has lost
everything-including his soul. The only fair thing he can do is tell the woman
who’s patiently waited for him to come home-to move on with her life-without
him.

BUT SHE NEVER WILL

Sassy waitress Paige Walker has no intention of walking
away from the man of her dreams. He gave his all for his country and served
with honor. Now it’s time to pull him from the darkness and give him hope. With
a heap of love, the help of the entire town, and a tail-wagging companion,
Paige makes sure her hero knows there’s no place like home sweet home.

So the amazing Ms. Candis Terry has written another Sweet Texas story, but this one a novella.

This is Army Ranger Lieutenant Aiden Marshall's story. He has returned from the sands of Afghanistan to the pastures and longhorns steers of Sweet Texas. But he also was coming back after losing his friends to IED's and forced to abandon the dog that he has raised from a puppy. He has decided things must change, starting with the one women, he has to say goodbye to...Paige Walker

Paige has been in love with Aiden for years and has waited for him to come back to Sweet, for years. But now he is back, saying words that she doesn't want to hear or accept. So she start a campaign not only to keep him is her life, but also to bring his dog back to him. But will it work?

Such a sweet story that I loved from the beginning and so far this has become my most favorite Sweet Tx story. It was very well written and well researched.

I give Home Sweet Home 10 out of 10

“When did
you get home? Why didn’t your brother tell me? How long will you be home? Do
you want something to eat? Of course you do. Dumb question. Scratch that.”

Aiden
couldn’t help but smile as Paige fired off a volley of questions, then finished
them off with a random thought.

Just like
old times.

She’d
always been that girl.

The one who
had a million things going on all at once and tried to keep them all in order
inside her head. At times, she came off a bit scrambled even though, for the
most part, she had it more together than anyone he’d ever met. Aiden knew she
saw every day as a gift. She saw life as something priceless that should be hit
at full speed and explored twenty-four hours a day.

When they’d
been together, he’d managed to keep her in bed for several of those hours a day
just to show her that a lot could be accomplished in a prone position too. But
even then, between making love, she’d come up with a list of half a dozen
things she wanted to do that day, next week, or a year down the road. They’d
done a hell of a lot of exploring in those days, and even if he hadn’t been
able to keep up with her eagerness on the calendar, he managed to keep her
enthusiasm busy in other ways.

“A few days
ago,” he said, answering her first question, then followed up with the rest.
“Ben didn’t tell you because he didn’t know. And yes, I’d love a Diablo burger,
a double order of sweet-potato fries, and a marshmallow Snickers milk shake.”

It didn’t
take a rocket scientist to know immediately that she was hurt because he’d
taken so long to come see her. By rights, she should have been first on his
list. And she would have been, but he had obligations to visit Bobby’s and
Billy’s folks. And after those visits, he had barely been able to look at
himself in the mirror.

The wounded
look in her eye disappeared, and her smile reappeared. Apparently, she realized
too why he hadn’t come to see her first.

“Awww. Your
favorite foods.” She shifted her weight from one sexy hip to the other. “I’ll
bet you’ve been craving those for a long time.”

He’d been
craving her too, but that kind of thinking had to stop.

“Pretty
much since I boarded the plane for Afghanistan and left American soil.” Funny
how the moment you knew you couldn’t have something, you wanted it even more.

“Well, the
wait is over. You sit right there, and I’ll have Bud put your order on a rail.”
Her tennis shoes squeaked as she turned and rushed off into the kitchen.

With all
day in front of him and nothing to do, Aiden could watch her through the order
window, excitedly gesturing with her hands while she spoke with Bud. Still, he
couldn’t help wonder out loud … “A rail?”

The old man
with the bald head next to him nodded and grinned. “She’s puttin’
the hurry up on it for you.”

“Oh.”

Guilt
wrapped around Aiden’s throat and gave a hard squeeze. The faster Paige moved,
the sooner he’d have to deliver the news. She looked so damned happy to see
him, he hated to burst her bubble. Hated to hurt her in any way. But it had to
be done. No matter how badly he might think he wanted it to be otherwise.

“For a man
who’s got a pretty woman like that scurrying around to make time to be with
him, you sure got a grim look on your puss.”

The man
sitting next to him, Chester Banks, was well into his eighties. He’d had more
ex-wives than Disneyland had rides. Over the years, his nose had grown, and his
eyes had sunk. He probably weighed all of a hundred pounds soaking wet, was
bowlegged, and wore his Wranglers so starched, his arthritic knees could barely
bend. But Chester had no qualms whatsoever about chasing the ladies who were at
least six decades younger.

“Probably
matches what’s inside my head,” Aiden verified.

“Oh?” A
scraggly gray brow lifted, and a smile broke across Chester’s wrinkled lips.
“So you’re saying the lovely Paige is up for grabs?”

Candis Terry was born and raised near
the sunny beaches of Southern California and now makes her home on an Idaho
farm. She’s experienced life in such diverse ways as working in a Hollywood
recording studio to chasing down wayward steers. Only one thing has remained
the same: her passion for writing stories about relationships, the push and
pull in the search for love, and the security one finds in their own happily
ever after.